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Dylan Dittrich-Reed and his son, Niko, pose for a portrait outside of the S.C. Statehouse on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Dittrich-Reed is worried he will have to move his family out of state if they cannot get gender-affirming health care for his son. Photo: MCKENZIE LANGE/ Staff / USA TODAY NETWORK Despite anti-transgender activists’ claims

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Pastor Tommy McMurtry of the Liberty Baptist Church in Rock Falls, Illinois recently went after atheists for supporting the “perversion” of being LGBTQ+. “The atheist religion always is a supporter of perversion,” he said. “They are always the biggest supporters of the LGBT, the trans rights, and all that because it is an anti-God religion. And

A well-known social media personality is clapping back after a conservative commentator accused him of pedophilia simply because he is a gay dad. Widower José Rolón is a single gay father of three. Using the handle @nycgaydad across social media, he shares delightful and hilarious videos he makes with his kids. He has over 512

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Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened. We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try the

Images of Tjachyadi posted on the Libs of TikTok X account. Photo: Screenshot A beloved chemistry teacher resigned from his position at a Texas high school this week after being targeted by anti-LGBTQ+ hate influencer Chaya Raichik, who goes by Libs of TikTok on social media. “It has been very difficult to see the hateful

President Joe Biden smiles before delivering the 2024 State of the Union. Photo: Josh Morgan-USA TODAY via IMAGN President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address told transgender Americans, “I have your back.” He also spoke against book-banning and “erasing history,” and told Congress to pass the Equality Act, legislation that would enshrine LGBTQ+ civil

An AI-generated image of Trump with Black people. Notice the oddly-rendered hands and lettering. Photo: Twitter screenshot Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has begun actively courting Black voters, a group that has traditionally voted Democrat. Trump’s supporters have also begun courting this group by making dozens of artificial intelligence (AI) generated images of him surrounded by

J.K. Rowling Photo: Shutterstock Author J.K. Rowling has been reported to the police by British TV broadcaster India Willoughby for misgendering her. This follows a years-long feud between the two triggered by the Harry Potter author’s history of transphobic comments. “J.K. Rowling has definitely committed a crime,” Willoughby, the first transgender talk show host in

The DeMoss Learning Center at Liberty University Photo: EOverbey via Wikimedia Commons and Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Liberty University — the Christian conservative and anti-LGBTQ private school in Lynchburg, Virginia — has been fined $14 million by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for not reporting on-campus crimes as required by the

A research fits a woman with a brainwave scanning headset Photo: Shutterstock Neurological researchers have developed brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that use artificial intelligence (AI) to “read minds” and detect people’s thoughts and sexual orientations. Though the tech is still very new and somewhat crude, it has ethicists thinking about the legal protections humans will need

Drag queen dances in “Kangaroo Time” Photo: Screenshot “Kangaroo Time,” a music video featuring drag queens, kangaroos, and ballet dancers, has won a prestigious international science competition. Queer behavioral ecologist Weliton Menário Costa took home the top prize at the Eurovision-like “Dance Your Ph.D.” competition. Costa has spent years studying eastern grey kangaroos. Related: Costa’s

NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at a Trump rally on March 2, 2024 Photo: Megan Smith/USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN As expected, former President Donald Trump has handily beaten former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley in the Super Tuesday primary elections held in 14 states and one U.S.

Former President Donald Trump endorsed North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) for his state’s governor, calling Robinson “Martin Luther King on steroids.” However, Robinson has said he considers King to be an “inferior pastor” and a “communist” who wanted to “subvert capitalism” and “free choice.” These comments cap off his years of extremely hateful language towards

Today is Super Tuesday, when 15 states and one territory hold votes for Democratic and Republican primaries. But while President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are largely expected to sweep their parties’ races for president, Super Tuesday will also help select the candidates running in other state and local races that could drastically

The U.S. State Department has warned that Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill could jeopardize aid to the West African nation. Last week, the Ghanaian Parliament unanimously approved a bill that would increase the country’s existing criminal penalties for homosexuality from three years in prison to five. The “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Photo: Screenshot Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) once praised Air National Guardsman Jack Douglas Teixeira for telling “the truth” by leaking military secrets about U.S. aid to Ukraine. A federal court just sentenced the 22-year-old Teixeira to 16 years in prison, and his past social media posts show that he

Fighting in a mixed martial arts (MMA) match is a lot like fighting to win an election, says Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS). “Everything that determines whether you win or lose on the night of the fight happens well in advance,” the trailblazing Democratic legislator from Kansas and former MMA fighter tells LGBTQ Nation. “It comes

For decades, LGBTQ+ people have been explicitly banned from Staten Island’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, with organizers claiming the policy is justified based on the teachings of the Catholic Church. After endless battles to make the parade more inclusive, activists have taken a different approach this year and will host their own separate LGBTQ+-inclusive

An image of results from Google’s Gemini AI image generator Photo: Twitter screenshot Google has partly disabled its artificial intelligence (AI) image generator Gemini after the software produced racially diverse and historically inaccurate images of Black Vikings, female popes, and people of color as the United States “founding fathers.” Gemini produced these images without being

An anti-trans activist who has claimed fan fiction turns kids trans said she was just doing research when busted reading pornographic Harry Potter fan fiction on a train. Helen Joyce is the director of advocacy for the British anti-trans organization Sex Matters and has spent several years blaming fan fiction for influencing teenagers assigned female

High Court master Victoria McCloud has resigned from her role as Britain’s only trans judge after determining her identity is simply too “political” for her to do her job effectively. 54-year-old McCloud has spent 18 years on the bench but wrote to the senior judiciary that the TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) movement in the

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Andy Cohen Photo: Screenshot The Kelly Clarkson Show A one-time prized Bravo Housewives star, Brandi Glanville of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, is accusing Andy Cohen — a Bravo exec and host of the network’s marquee program, Watch What Happens — of sexual harassment. Cohen, who is openly gay, responded to the charge by saying

Elon Musk stands between the logos for X and Twitter Photo: Shutterstock X has quietly reinstated an anti-harassment policy that forbids users from misgendering or deadnaming others. However, X’s transphobic billionaire owner Elon Musk — who removed the policy in April 2023 — suggested he may repeal the policy once again after complaints by anti-LGBTQ+

Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened. We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try the

Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) speaks on the Senate floor Photo: CSPAN/screenshot While the MAGA crowd has clambered to ban books featuring Black or LGBTQ+ characters or themes with the support of Republicans, Democrats have steadfastly defended the First Amendment and pushed back against the Nazi-style efforts. But when Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) took to the

Mar-a-Lago on Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Mar-a-Lago is Palm Beach’s grandest mansion built in 1927. Mar-a-Lago — the Palm Beach, Florida, resort and home of former President Donald Trump — recently hosted the same-sex wedding of an official from the Tennessee chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans (a gay conservative group) and